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By AMADO P. MACASAET MALAYA ‘It is necessary for all aspirants of court positions, again particularly the Chief Justice, to take the psychological test. Aspirants who flunk it should not be included in the short list submitted to the President.’ Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno is known to have objected to psychological tests by the Judicial and Bar Council to evaluate aspirants for Read More …
By Rey E. Requejo Manila Standard Today The psychiatric examination of the aspirants for the Supreme Court and the Office of the Ombudsman will be retained, and the Judicial and Bar Council will merely “cleanse” the system, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said on Friday. De Lima, the vice chairman of the council that vets the candidates to the high court and the Office of Read More …
By Benjamin B. Pulta The Daily Tribune Of the incumbent Supreme Court (SC) magistrates who applied for the Chief Justice position, Lourdes Sereno obtained the lowest grade of “4” or a failure in the psychological and psychiatric tests which is a five point numerical system where a grade of “5” was the lowest score, while Associate Justice Teresita Leonard-De Castro who has reportedly been at Read More …
BY EVANGELINE DE VERA MALAYA FOR the second time, Supreme Court magistrates yesterday deferred ruling on compelling the Judicial and Bar Council to release results of the psychiatric evaluation on nominees for the position of chief justice. A court source said that during the regular en banc session yesterday, senior justices again tried to put to a vote the letter of Associate Justice Arturo Brion, Read More …
By Benjamin B. Pulta The Daily Tribune Members of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) continue to downplay reports placing newly-appointed Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno near the bottom of the barrel in tests meant to gauge the emotional quotient and psychological and psychiatric well being of candidates to the post. Earlier in the morning, senior justices of the Supreme Court again snubbed the SC flag Read More …
By Alex P. Vidal LOS ANGELES, California – Plato was right when he insisted in the Republic that there is nothing that a man can do in public affairs that a woman cannot do equally well. The classicial Greek philosopher admitted certain respects in which a woman, simply by being a woman, is inferior in political activity to a man, but he thought that the Read More …
If President Aquino appoints the 52-year-old Associate Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, she will be chief Justice for 18 years! — PERRY DIAZ CJ nominees get low grade in mental test By Jomar Canlas, Reporter The Manila Times TWO frontrunners in the race for the chief justice got very poor marks in the psychological test recently given by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to nominees Read More …
Source: Sun Star Manila SUPREME Court magistrate Arturo Brion and former San Juan Representative Ronaldo Zamora, who are both aspirants for the Chief Justice position, were called to Malacanang last week, several sources said over the weekend. The visit apparently took place before President Benigno Aquino III’s outburst Friday. Aquino said Friday that he was not satisfied with the shortlist provided by the Judicial and Read More …
By Delon Porcalla The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – President Aquino admitted yesterday that his choice for chief justice is not in the final shortlist of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) but that he has to choose from among the list anyway by Aug. 27. “What’s my choice? The Constitution does not give me that prerogative. The Constitution tells me that I have to Read More …
COMMENTARY MALAYA The impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona was billed as a house cleaning effort by the Aquino Administration. Following Corona’s ouster, we witnessed what has been touted as the most transparent selection process for his successor. Really? Emerging as front runner in the pageant for the next leader of the judicial branch was Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Aquino’s presumptive choice. What stood Read More …